Extreme Makeover: Wargamer Edition

This time I decided to work a little on the scenery for Invasion game. To this end I decided to paint or repaint some of my micro-armor houses. These particular buildings hold a sentimental value to me being the first war gaming buildings I bought some thirty years ago. In that time some of them have been damaged and I decided to use this opportunity to fixed some of them up.

The buildings before I started. As you can see most of the damage was to the bases which I didn't care for anyway.

The first step was to glue them to bases. I then used Acrylic Gel to make the bases somewhat flush. For the Church and the Mansion I used fine model railroad ballast to make gravel drive ways. Finally I used green stuff to try to repair some of the roofs.

Now it's time to move that bus.

Hmm going to have to touch up the apartment building. 

For the two buildings on the left I deliberately left the roofs partially painted as it gave them more texture. I also numbered the smaller buildings.

All the buildings together. This photo shows the backyards. One thing I think I'll do next time is use a single colored flocking on the hedges to make them stand out more. 

Well that's the first batch of buildings. (I have to do at least 6 more.) Next up I'll be painting up more ships for the naval part.

First new painting of the year

Happy New Year, everyone! This last week was surprising as we actually got snowed on here in Savannah. For a while I was trapped on the island with my Dad as all the bridges were closed. Since then I've been staying there because my house is an icebox right now. (I cut the gas off years ago because I got tired of being screwed year round by the gas company.)

My Car while I was stuck on the island. 

This doesn't mean I haven't been working as I have finished my latest unit for the invasion project. Here we have a Danish territorial company, consisting of 3 infantry stands and 1 heavy weapons stand. The whole unit is mounted in a variety of civilian vehicles. I was inspired by Richards Danish Home Guard units at Cold War Hot Hot!.

One of the infantry platoons is marked AT. This represents the infantry equipped with Carl Gustavs, while the rest have M72 LAWs. 

The infantry is H&R WWII US infantry. The land rover is a Scotia model. The station wagon is an old In Service model and the Volkswagen van and truck are form Shapways. I had a slight accident with the land rover that required it to be glued back to stand just prior of taking the photograph. 

In addition to those I also painted up some more civilian vehicles to act as road side objectives for the Soviets. 

The cars are some more of the old In-Service models, while the vans are Shapeways. The hatchback's paint job was inspired by my grandparents old Pacer. 

Having a bunch of old style Volkswagen vans, of course I was going to paint one as the Hippie-Mobile.

Anyway that's the first new stuff for the new year. The ships I order came in sooner than I expected so I'll either work on them or some new terrain pieces. I still need to make one more order before I have everything I need for the game.

James